Spring for Ring-necked and Alexandrine Parakeets in Haarlem
April 15, 2007 — Filed in: Feral, Naturalized and City Parrots
Today we visited the parakeets of Haarlem (The Netherlands). Spring is in full swing for these birds and their breeding cycle well advanced.
There are two species of parakeet in Haarlem. The first and most numerous are the ubiquitous Ring-Necked Parakeets (Psittacula krameri). A species that is common in the Randstad area that joins The Netherlands mayor cities of Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Haarlem and Utrecht in the west. These birds are joined by a closely related parakeet which can only be found wild in the Netherlands in Haarlem and Amsterdam: the Alexandrine Parakeet (Psittacula eupatria).
